seppuku

plural seppukus

1. countableuncountableA form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest, or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.

   I heard that if you hit a vape and then commit seppuku by slashing out your lungs, it'll look like there's a ghost leaving your body.

   2018 August 22, 01:28 from the start, in CS:GO SURF IN A NUTSHELL (Comedy, Gaming), spoken by RaccoonEggs, YouTube

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   “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” […] At a panel hosted by Globis, a Japanese graduate business school, Dr. Narita told the audience that “if this can become a Japanese society where people like you all commit seppuku one after another, it wouldn’t be just a social security policy but it would be the best ‘Cool Japan’ policy.”

   2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, quoting Yusuke Narita, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2023

   Synonyms: hara-kiri